Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-02
TUESDAY, AUGUST g, 1887.
~ How We Apples swim..,

chow We Apples Swim.,
PERHAPS one of the most eccentric
rs well as the silliest newspaper breaks
ever made in California is that of
which the San Francisco Erening Post
is acquitting itself OF late. That jour
nal, since it lost, first, the sagacious
guiding hand of Col. John p. Jackson,
and afterwards, the conservative and
iudicious restraint OF Gen. John f.
Sheehan, is signalizing itself by ex-
tremes Of malicious folly. At time
when the staff of the Examiner was
engaged in preparing special sixteen
page edition of that great daily, which
will bear eloquent and earnest testi-
mony to the sterling advances of this
section, and which will concede its
great future, the Post, under sensa-
tional head lines, is engaged in the
pitiful and abortive task of trying to
whistle it down the wind. 1t is true
that in this effort it Injuries nothing
but itself. Since it passed into the
control of the Lick Paper Mill
of San Jose for paper bill
Il has lost all the significance
which at times attached to it through
the talent and character of some of
its conductors. Malice is at all times
contemplate, but purely impotent
malice is peculiarly SO. Our esteemed
contemporary, in emulating King
Canutes' fury of beating the waves, is
accomplishing just about what the old
Saxon King did, viz, making its i'm
becility very apparent. The develop
ment of Southern California, of which
Los Angeles is leading integer, is
f~cceesling with velocity and mo-
1nentum that dozen northern jour
mails, of twenty times the force and
ability of the Post, could not interrupt
for moment. The truth is that the
State of California was abnormally
developed. Probably happily enough
the settlement Of this brave common
wealth was begun through the devel-
opment of treasure deposits that more
than discounted the famed mines of
Ophir of the old scriptural
days. Considering the tremendous
difficulties that interposed be-
tween the intending immigrant to
California and his goal, it needed some
such strong incentive to populate the
Pac ific Slope portion of the United
States. But in the strong quest for the
massy ingots of gold the early Argo-
nauts overlooked the "riches fineless"
that lay in Southern California. Dis
couraged by the presence here and
there Of large bodies of waste lands,
they thoughtlessly passed over the
"Cow Counties as unworthy of seri-
GUS attention. AS a result, we are
now witness of a striking exemplifica-
fion of the scriptural aphorisn, that
+" the first shall be last and the last
first" Los Angeles and the other
southern counties in no respect owe
their development to the people of the
northern and central counties. Ex-
periments carried out here have de-
veloped the fact that the richest and
most productive lands on the American
continent lie in Southern. California.
These experiments were somewhat
handicapped by the fact that, for
hundreds Of years, the soil had been
frannpled by the hoofs of countless
herds Of cattle, bands of horses and
herds of sheep. Once opened up by |
the plough, capillary attraction and
other causes, have done their work I;
80 that, now, we witness, in the COM
pass Of Los Angeles county alone, the |
largest range Of remunerative produc-
ton known to any spot on the footstool
of equivalent size. If the people of
the northern and central counties have
failed to see the opportunities for lu-
,rative investment here, those of the |
East have not been equally Indifferent.
They have not belonged to the class OF |
men who have ears and hear not, eyes
and see not. Local industry and en-
ferprise have done at least enough to |
show what could be accomplished,
and Eastern people have done the
rest.
As a result we can fearlessly say,
HAT no other portion of the American
,outinent can show such varied and
scheme Of development as
southern California. We have at last
cached stage in which the scales
ave fallen even from the eyes Of the
,eople Of Northern and Central Cali
prnia; and they, though laggards, are
Ironging here in the footsteps of the
Icrt business man from the East.
ne I'Sst is showing its disgruntled
ia splsnetic temper at the very time
hen We have been treated TO the
uortocle az ex- United States Senator
-. = n ri <I,o Soxsfhorn pacif{c !